As many of you know, I have been working on a comprehensive history of the Iowa City Airport. This task was thrust upon me as a required adjunct to our project of saving our Boeing/United hangar -- one of just seven original air mail hangars still standing nationwide. While researching this...

"DaveC" wrote in message ... Cell phone usage is restricted on all domestic commercial flights by the FAA, so the flight attendant keeps telling me. The regulation against using electronic devices that have not...

Hi, folks, I am a recent film school grad writer/director working on my first feature length script that involves aviators that flew between WWI and 1926. The "CN-4 Curtiss Jenny" is the plane that I will be dealing with for the most part. My first requirement is to find someone who knows a lot...

A question to the group. Do you normally fly many night solo cross country flights? I have been going out to the local airport every couple months to do some night flying, but it's usually solo just around the patch to get night current so I can carry a passenger at night. The few times that I have...

From today's EAA E-Newsletter: http://www.eaa.org/communications/eaanews/pr/040909_weiner.html Jay Beckman Student Pilot - KCHD 46.5 Hrs ... Nowhere to go but up!

"Peter" wrote in message ... Reading FAR/AIM 2004 it isn't entirely clear to me because different sections refer to day and night cross country, and I don't think the description of a day cross country applies to the...

hi, just thought I'd mension that lowtimepilots.com has constructed a website containing a completely free and professional logbook web application including stats, charts and resume wizard that is meant for low time pilots, cfi's and student pilots. The developers are pilots themselves, and want...

The following is mail that I recieved as part of a mass-mailout from the organization of SWRFI. Given that this is a public announcement sent to the persons who have an interest in the organization or have corresponded with it, I am going to take the liberty of reposting it here and unedited...

Can the mike be rotated so that it can be on either the right or left side of one's face? The one demo unit I looked at was new and the mike boom was already broken, so it was impossible to tell. It was kind of just dangling, without the ability to be secure in either location. Are these headsets...

What is an Air Force plane doing on a carrier??? "Todd Pattist" wrote in message ... I thought some of you might like to see our new stealth fighter: The plane in these pictures is still officially Air Vehicle ...

Up above $53/barrel now.... Can we *puhleeeze* start developing our own oil in Alaska; off the coast of Calif. and the gulf now??? Or should we just keep on doing what we are doing ... nothing... in total denial and keep paying out the anal cavity to other countries. In my opinion it is way...

This might be nitpicky, but nothing in the AIM is a "requirement". Technically the AIM is not the law, the FAR is. Nonetheless, the AIM is incredibly important - I know. It seems subtle, doesn't it?

So, what do you think the next X prize will bring? First privately funded re-usable spacecraft to orbit the earth? To the moon? Looks like this is gearing up to be the next big economy 'boom'

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Airport security officers destroyed a passenger's carry-on briefcase Thursday after an X-ray showed a suspicious object and the owner falsely claimed to be a law enforcement officer, officials said. No bomb was found, and the passenger was released after questioning,...

Yesterday was simply fabulous here in the Upper Midwest. A high pressure system dominated, resulting in cobalt-blue skies, light winds, and cool temperatures -- perfect for a leaf-peeping flight! See the pix at www.alexisparkinn.com/2004_leaf_peeper_pix.htm . We headed over to the Mississippi,...

I currently have a C182RG with the BFGoodrich Skywatch traffic avoidance system installed and displayed on a Garmin 530 and 430. Lately, I've noticed that Bogey's will sporadically disappear from the display. They may reappear or remain "undetected" even though I know that they are within...

WARNING! This post does not contain any political diatribe, personal castigations, or off-topics musings. The weather over the north end of California's share of the Mojave Desert was once again in the severe clear category. A Mooney departed to the south from Inyokern Airport (IYK) just as I...

can you cook? can you pilot an aircraft? are you into computers? you're the (wo)man! hmm, this one is only for (US-) citizens, methinks. This time the foreigners come better off. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/9/12032/9687 ---snip The proposed changes discussed in this meeting include:

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I was talking to a colleague who is a freelance CFI and had just visited the local FBO to register so that he could comply with the TSA Alien Training rule reporting requirements, assuming it goes ahead. I think he has existing non-citizen students. Actually, my reading of the rule is that...